Amris, K;
Williams, ACDC;
(2015)
Managing chronic pain in survivors of torture.
Pain Management
, 5
(1)
pp. 5-12.
10.2217/pmt.14.50.
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Abstract
All generalist and specialist clinicians are likely to encounter torture survivors among refugees and asylum seekers. A minority of people survive torture and a smaller minority reach a developed country; those who do tend to be the more resilient and resourceful. They have many health, social and welfare problems; persistent pain in the musculoskeletal system is one of the most common. There is little specific evidence on pain in survivors of torture; the guidelines on interdisciplinary specialist management are applicable. Most of the literature on refugee survivors of torture has an exclusive focus on psychological disorders, with particularly poor understanding of pain problems. This article summarizes the current status of assessment and treatment of pain problems in the torture survivor.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Managing chronic pain in survivors of torture |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.2217/pmt.14.50 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.2217/pmt.14.50 |
| Language: | English |
| Keywords: | Falanga, post-torture pain, torture, torture methods, torture rehabilitation,torture survivor, torture victim |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences > Clinical, Edu and Hlth Psychology |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1476206 |
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